A gym owner who is spending £20,000 a month furloughing her staff today slammed Boris Johnson for opening pubs before fitness centres. Former Olympic speed skater Sarah Lindsay owns Roar Fitness transformation gyms which have branches across London. Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, she revealed it was costing her some £20,000 a month to … Read more
A gym owner who is spending £20,000 a month furloughing her staff today slammed Boris Johnson for opening pubs before fitness centres. Former Olympic speed skater Sarah Lindsay owns Roar Fitness transformation gyms which have branches across London. Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, she revealed it was costing her some £20,000 a month to … Read more
Manchester bar owner Martin Greenhow has said that businesses like his in Tier 3 are better off ‘sitting on our hands’ and claiming furlough England’s pubs and bars have suffered a ‘mortal blow’ after Boris Johnson imposed brutal Tier 2 and 3 rules on 99% of the country yesterday with one landlord describing the decision as … Read more
Asos has confirmed it plans to repay the Government the money it saved by furloughing around 1,000 staff via the Job Retention Scheme as the pandemic hit. In a trading update, Asos said: ‘As a result of our expectation that we will deliver a better than initially anticipated full-year performance, we are repaying the support … Read more
Asos has confirmed it plans to repay the Government the money it saved by furloughing around 1,000 staff via the Job Retention Scheme as the pandemic hit. In a trading update, Asos said: ‘As a result of our expectation that we will deliver a better than initially anticipated full-year performance, we are repaying the support … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak ‘will stop firms furloughing more staff from August’ as Government looks to flexible working to get Britain ‘back up and running’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to announces changes to job retention scheme Firms could be banned from furloughing anymore workers at end of July Companies also expected to pay NI contributions and … Read more
Britain’s fifth richest man Sir James Ratcliffe is slammed for furloughing 800 staff at his luxury hotel chain despite £12.2bn fortune Sir James’ hotel chain is using the government’s furlough scheme to pay staff Secured £4million from the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme Wealthier hotelier last reported to have had plans to move to tax haven … Read more
A fifth of Britain’s workforce has gone on furlough – at a staggering cost of £8billion. Downing Street yesterday revealed that the Government is now paying the wages of 6.3million workers under the scheme. Employers impacted by the coronavirus are entitled to claim taxpayer money to pay 80 per cent of each staff member’s wages … Read more
Piers Morgan has taken another swipe at Victoria Beckham for using taxpayer money to pay for her staff. Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain, the host praised Ed Sheeran for refusing to furlough his employees, whilst taking a swipe at Posh Spice. It was revealed this week that Ed will be using his … Read more
Chief executives at 18 FTSE 100 listed companies furloughing thousands of staff raked in over £300million, or over £3million each, in pay and rewards since 2015, new findings from the High Pay Centre claim. There are mounting calls for super-rich fat cat executives to play a bigger part in shouldering the financial burden stemming from … Read more